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In Conversation: Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was secretary to the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, for a period of 40 years. As a young boy of 13,…
Dear Rebbe, I Have A Story For you
The following letter was sent to the Lubavitcher Rebbe probably in the early 1980s, and brought to the attention of the Wellsprings journal by the…
Drug Rabbi Gets High Award
(lubavitch.com) Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 83rd birthday last week with a parade in her honor (moved several months beyond her actual birthday due to…
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Chabad Remembers Israel’s Efraim Katzir
(lubavitch.com) Efraim Katzir, Israel’s fourth president who served from 1973 to 1978, internationally recognized biophysicist, and Zionist activist, died Saturday evening in his home at…
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A Jerusalem Landmark: Chabad’s Tzemach Tzedek Shul
(lubavitch.com) Visitors to the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City are often moved by the sight of the Hurva Synagogue. Destroyed by the Jordanians in…
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Jewish Organization Implores Pope To Help Identify Hidden Children of Holocaust
(lubavitch.com) Pope Benedict XVI’s scheduled visit to Israel May 11-15 is eliciting mixed reactions among Israelis. But Chabad Rabbi Shalom Dov Lifshitz hopes the visit…
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Building Jewish Futures in Reno, Nevada
(lubavitch.com) Three mornings a week, Tracy Kutler straps five-year old Griffin into the family car for the 45-minute drive from Truckee, California to Reno, Nevada.…
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Books: Meditations on Mitzvot
(lubavitch.com) The face of Chabad in the twenty-first century has been the shliach and the shlucha. Incredibly dedicated and energetic couples have fanned out around…
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At Pratt University, Students Design Chabad’s Jewish Center
(lubavitch.com) If students build it, students will come. Construction is set to begin on a 2,000 square foot storefront which will serve the 5,000 Jewish…
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Expelled From Russia, Chabad Rabbis Lead By Remote
(lubavitch.com) Following their recent expulsion from Russia, several rabbis have been working across phone lines and emails guiding their communities in Passover preparations. Chabad representatives…
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Passover Seders With Chabad in Mumbai
(lubavitch.com) There will be seders in Mumbai this Passover.Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students arriving from New York in the days before the holiday, hit the ground running.…
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Survivor of the Gulag, Reb Mottel the Schochet, 97
Known affectionately as "Reb Mottel the Shochet”, he was the sole ritual slaughterer, or shochet, in Moscow during the last two decades of Communist rule.
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In Conversation: Rabbi Nochem Kaplan
You’ve been elected to serve as President of the NCPSA. How significant is that? Well, notwithstanding the fact that most people have never heard of…
PM Harper To Chabad: Canada A Defender of Jews, Israel
(lubavitch.com) Canada’s Prime Minister Stephen Harper greeted Chabad-Lubavitch Canadian representatives Thursday, denouncing anti-Semitism and promising to repudiate it wherever it surfaces.“Canada will remain an unyielding…
In Conversation: Russia’s Chief Rabbi On Russia and the Jews Today
This is a vastly different Russia from the one you found when you arrived here in 1990. You came with your wife from a western…
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After 22 Years, Netherlands Names Chief Rabbi
(lubavitch.com) In an official ceremony earlier this week at the Arnhem Synagogue in Holland, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs was formally given the title of Inter-Provincial chief…
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Matchmaker, Matchmaker . . .
(lubavitch.com) When Fiddler on the Roof made its 1964 debut under the bright white lights of Broadway, theater-goers and reviewers hailed it as a period…
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Remembering the Life of a Jewish Feminine Role Model: Rebbetzin Chaya Moussia Schneerson
Greatness comes in many forms. Often we imagine the character of a giant as someone who influences an entire world, forgetting the silent majesty of…
Chabad Conference Initiatives: Rivkah’s Tent
(lubavitch.com) The Midrash in Bereishit Rabbah 60 speaks of the candles that burned and the challah that remained fresh from week to week in Sarah’s…
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